This experiment examined interactions between visual and auditory sense modalities. Eighty participants performed a visual counting task accompanied by auditory noise, which was either slow (2 beats/s), medium (3 beats/s), fast (5 beats/s), or white noise (static). Attention to the auditory stimulus was manipulated to determine its effects on the expected cross-modal interactions. Test arrangements consisted of both asymmetrical and symmetrical configurations of 13 and 15 dots arranged in both near (1.27 cm) and far (5.08 cm) proximities. Results indicated cross-modal effects for the medium sound rate so that response times were slower when attention to the auditory stimulus was given. This effect may be explained by interactions between saccadic eye movements, auditory stimuli, and display configurations.

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